Vic
Cherikoff, a distinguished member of Superlife
Products and its development team, is the worldâs leading
researcher in pharmacology of Australian plant resources. Pharmacology is the
study of bioactive compounds and their origin, nature, properties and effects
upon living organisms. His research and development into the functional applications
of Australiaâs wild resources continues
to deliver the most up to date and leading edge bioactive compounds in bush
medicines to the market.

He is the scientific and botanical advisor to Superlife Products for the development
of Survivor 2 and Survivor
Select.

In 1988 Vic was also most fortunate to be invited as the only food scientist/ethno-botanist
collaborating with 35 scientists on a British-Australian research program in
the Kimberley region of north-western Australia, in co-operation with the Government
of Western Australia. The research program was lead by Professor Andrew Goudie,
Department of Geography, University of Oxford, U.K., and Dr. Martin Sands, Royal
Botanic Garderns, Kew, Australia.

It was supported by the Linnean Society of London, a âliving forum for
biologyâ, whose role is the Cultivation of the Science of Natural History,
and the Royal Geographical Science of London, whose role is to promote âthe
Advancement of Geographical Scienceâ, and provide a dynamic world centre
for Geographical Learning â supporting research, education, expeditions
and fieldwork.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, Prince Philip, flew out as patron to these
groups as well as to meet and greet the hard-working scientists.

The Kimberley region of Western Australia is a wild, sparsely populated and
under-researched area into which access is often difficult. A research camp
was constructed on the Lennard River, 120km from the nearest local town. Here
the Angio-Australian team worked closely with the local Bunaba aboriginal people
in their tribal lands. The elders and medicine men of the Bunaba people guided
the scientists to known plant species that had provided food and medicine for
their ancestors for millennia.

Amid a landscape which is perhaps one of the oldest in the world, the geomorphologists
(who study the evolution and configuration of landforms) studied the climatic
history of the area, and the life scientists collected field data and studied
plant species that had never been identified or catalogued by science. Particular
attention was paid to the investigation of the nutrition value of Aboriginal
food plants to evaluate the viability of selected species as cultivated crops.
This is the background that led to the development of Survivor
2 and Survivor Select.

Building
on this background was several decades of on-going research as a Research Associate
at the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury and a resource contact at three
other Universities as well as co-researcher on various Collaborative Research
Centre and CSIRO (Australiaâs Commonwealth Scientific and industrial Research
Organisation) projects. These links ensured that the research and development
into the functional applications of Australiaâs wild resources continued
to deliver the most up to date and leading edge bioactives to the market.

Nothing man-made can claim to be totally impossible to reproduce or duplicate.
However, in Vicâs 30 years of research and with the subsequent development
of Survivor 2 and Survivor Select with Frank Ellis of Superlife, who Vic has
worked closely with in research and development and field and efficacy trials
for 12 years, no other formulation comes even close in terms of bioactivity
and efficacy and none could replicate it.

From the above background, it should be apparent that Vicâs knowledge
of the species of Aboriginal bush foods and
medicines is unique in that it bridges the cultures of
the 600 Aboriginal nations and covers much of the national resource. It goes
further than this as well. In that the natural diversity of wild species segments
the plants down into regional, local, physiological and phytochemical cultivars
(selections of natural plant species). Not all of any one species were seen
as food or medicine across their botanical distribution range. For example,
the Kakadu plum grows from Katherine in the Northern Territory, north to the
coastal Top End of Australia and across to the north-west Kimberley of Western
Australia. There are countless micro-climates within this geographic area where
the Kakadu plum can grow yet only several which allow the vitamin C, folic acid
and other cellular structures and components to reach the high level of concentration
as in the selections Vic has wild harvested.

Another clue as to the importance of the chemical make-up of several ingredients
in Survivor 2 and Survivor Select is the absence of certain optical
isomers (compounds with the same molecular formula but differ in the way they
rotate plane polarized light) of major components as these can co-exist yet
have harmful effects on human health. They are analytically undetectable down
to nanogram levels in the wild harvested product supplied.

Other work on the differences between wild harvested and even organically grow
plantation crops has proven to be marked. The water stress and often poorer
soils of wild situations appear to be influencing factors in maximizing the
concentration and bioactivity of actives. Thus, no other company could identify,
have defined the applications, source and supply the particular formulation
of native Australian plant which Superlife Products uses in its Survivor formulations.
It is indeed a unique product with a high degree of efficacy and Vic has stated
that he is proud to be associated with it.

The journey of discovery into the rare and exotic species of Australia is by
no means over. Vic is now investigating new compounds that are unique and exciting
and on completion of further tests will become part of the Survivor formulations.
This work will thereby, maintain this exciting formulation absolutely alone
and unique in the world and far into the future.

Survivor
2 and Survivor Select have their origins from outside of the soil degenerating
inorganic chemical revolution. This revolution and its adverse effects on agriculture
and human health are beautifully described in the book We
Want Read Food by Graham Harvey.

The botanical ingredients that make up Survivor 2 and Survivor Select are sourced
from plants grown wild in their natural state in regions of the Australian outback
land virtually untouched by man-made chemical pollutants, which contributes
to their high nutrition value and potency. Australia has been isolated geologically
from the rest of the world through most of its history and the region from which
Survivor 2 and Survivor Select ingredients are drawn is one of the most pristine
on earth, remote from all sources of pollution, and a great distance from the
nearest town.

Overcoming the deficiency of minerals and nutrients in our food is a topic
of Graham Harveyâs book. Supplementing the diet with minerals and nutrients
is unavoidable to health conscious consumers today. The high nutrition value
and potency of Survivor 2 and Survivor Select is unsurpassed and combined with
the high absorption rate of its bio-available elements makes Survivor 2 and
Survivor Select a vital part of reclaiming and maintaining good health.

Vic Cherikoff

Responsible Consumption - Agape Superior Living does not promote unsubstantiated product claims or 'cure-all' remedies. It does not profess that its products cure disease or illness but it does promote the use of its high quality nutritional supplements to support the bodies natural healing capabilities. It also supports a well balanced regime of exercise, adequate rest, proper diet and moderation to assist in attaining a healthy and disease free life style.